GE Medical Systems v. Ziarati

MEMORANDUM **

Mokhtar Ziarati and Resonance Technology, Inc., appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of General Electric Company on its declaratory relief action to enforce an agreement regarding inventions made by Ziarati. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.(1) Ziarati and RTI first assert that the district court erred when it granted summary judgment against them on their statute of limitations defense. We agree. GE admits for purposes of summary judgment that in 1989 it knew that Ziarati had failed to assign the inventions to it and was exploiting them…